Daniel Shahaf wrote on Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 20:47:05 +0000:
> Nathan Hartman wrote on Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 16:12:01 -0400:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 1:48 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> > > > Should these be re-merged into one item, as you had it before?
> > >
> > > That depends. _Do_ the Windows build scripts support libmagic?
> >
> > I think they don't. Unless I missed something.
> >
> > It looks as though the Windows build uses the makefile at
> > tools/dev/windows-build/Makefile. I am guessing that packagers for the
> > Windows platform are using this as their starting point? Anyway, this
> > makefile makes absolutely no mention of libmagic.
>
> That makefile is not the primary way to build on windows. The primary way is
> what INSTALL documents, i.e., gen-make.py and build/**/*.py.
>
> Given that the makefile specifies serf 1.1.0 and configure.ac enforces ≥1.3.4,
> I dare say that no one uses that makefile any more.
There's also tools/dev/build-svn-deps-win.pl, but that, too, might have bitrotten.
Cheers,
Daniel
Received on 2019-10-10 22:49:59 CEST